List of Physician Financial Blogs

It has been almost two years since I last wrote about the other physician financial blogs out there, and boy has the landscape changed! I thought it was time to write another post about them. When I wrote that article in 2016, I mentioned 16 blogs, including 4 written by non-physicians and one that was really a podcast. Of the remaining 11, 2 are now members of the WCI network, one’s author has passed on (RIP Amanda), and three are currently inactive. In addition, 20 or so of those which have started since then are either inactive or have completely disappeared. That leaves us with 52 for my list today. Requirements to be on this list include blog posts addressing financial topics being regularly written by a physician including at least once in the last three months. I have listed them in order of their Alexa ranking at the end of June 2018. Alexa rankings are easily obtained and correlate reasonably well with blog traffic, but aren’t perfect. So it’s possible that a blog belongs a little higher or lower on this list than they are. Plus, web traffic is very fluid so the longer it’s been since I published this, the less accurate it will be. An Alexa rank is basically a list of how popular a website is. So if my Alexa rank is 53,607, The White Coat Investor is the 53,607th most popular site in the world.

Thank you to all those who have started blogs to help physicians with their finances. You’re helping us fulfill our mission to help those who wear the white coat get a “fair shake” on Wall Street. I made this list partly just to keep track of you all, but also because we’re always looking for the next member of The White Coat Investor Network. However, I fear the 80+ blogs out there may be diluting the limited readership in this tiny niche so much that no more physician financial blogs will ever get big enough to join! Some of these blogs are written to a niche, within a niche, within a niche. Surely, there’s something for you here somewhere.

WCI might be head and shoulders above the rest, but PoF is an obvious second when it comes to reach. Most of you need no introduction to this blog focused on financial independence and early retirement for physicians.

This ranking was a surprise to me. Ben has been blogging for a long time, although only a minority of the posts are financially related. Lately he’s had a bit more of a focus on student loans (including a book on the topic).

More of a focus on philosophy and wellness, but also plenty of financial topics, this one is the highest ranking non-commercial blog on the list, although its author reserves the right to monetize it at any time!

This WCI regular made this comment the last time I made a list of physician financial blogs:

She apparently later changed her mind based on this later comment on the same post:

So be careful what you say! At any rate, this brand new blog is now the highest ranked physician financial blog written by a woman. There is a heavy focus on the issues faced around the time of retirement.

Originally called Urgent Care Career, the focus broadened when she left medicine after 7 years at age 39 in 2016. Less medicine, more finance and FI kind of material. Not sure either of the blog names make sense given the current focus. She may be rebranding as Medicine and Finance.

This WCI Conference panelist writes about an “alt-brown” perspective on life. He publishes occasional posts (and a real academic paper) on physician finance but is most famous for tweeting about his son’s tooth fairy entrapment episode.

This blog might be new, but we’ve known the blogger since 2010. The original incarnation (IBallDoc) preceded WCI and was on this blog’s original blogroll for years. It still focuses on starting your own practice.

Another WCI conference speaker, she is perhaps best known as the founder of the Physician Side Gigs Facebook Group. The blog focuses on wellness, balance, and burnout with occasional forays into finance.

I almost didn’t include this one as one of the three bloggers is a financial advisor, but all three are docs so why not. Only 17 posts in 15 months, but technically active. There was a previous iteration (no Alexa data) started in 2014, but the posts were pretty sporadic. (1-6 posts/year)

The first physician financial blog I’m aware of, as he moves into late career he admits “I’m not willing to work hard enough to do much more with this blog than I’m doing.” As you can tell from the rank, just being first doesn’t necessarily get you high on the list! Still the content is great even if there isn’t much promoting or monetizing going on.

Our second of three Canadian physician finance bloggers, this one is the most proud of it with a .ca URL and the word “Loonie” in the title (a Loonie is a $1 coin eh). He focuses on the aspects of finance unique to Canadians.

One day his neighbor told him he started a blog and he thought “that sounds like a waste of time.” Now my next door neighbor is in on the act too. He blogs about finance, fitness, wisdom, and mostly, the importance of establishing good habits.

A female FI doc who now sails and occasionally blogs, mostly about sailing but with occasional financial references. If you’ve dreamed of ditching it all for full on FIRE, this is probably worth your time.

This one is still sitting on a temporary domain, but hopefully it’ll stick around long enough to get its own domain.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten someone, and for that, I apologize. Please just post in the comments section and I’ll either add you to this list or include you the next time we do this.

Honorable Mention

There are a few other blogs that really ought to be considered here. However, they don’t qualify to be on “The Big List” for various reasons. Either they’re really not blogging about finances or they’re not a physician. But my audience isn’t 100% physicians, so I thought these folks deserved a shout-out too.

If there is anyone more fired up about burnout than The Happy Philosopher, it has to be The Happy MD. Some might criticize someone talking about overcoming burnout who doesn’t actually practice anymore, but it’s still a useful resource. The only reason it isn’t on the “The Big List” is because it rarely hits financial topics, even if your financial situation might have enough to do with burnout that I included it as a major part at the Physician Wellness and Financial Literacy Conference. It helps that it is a lot easier to get CME for burnout talks than asset allocation talks.

Lots of marketing on this one, but there is both a blog and a podcast done by a dentist hitting financial topics. Heavy on real estate and “masterminds” and light on actionable tips unless you come to the seminars/masterminds.

Another financial blog written by a pharmacist. Not sure which of the two is better. I suppose time will tell. There are a quarter million pharmacists in the country, so I suppose there is room for both.

Written by a dentist, this is like the anti-WCI financial blog. There’s a free blog but he’s really selling a $199 day trading newsletter.

Again, I’m sure I’ve forgotten someone. Leave a comment and we’ll either update or get you next time.

Come and Gone

This is a section of blogs that have either disappeared completely or at least haven’t been updated in the last 3 months. I decided to include this section for two reasons. First, at least for those that are still online, there is some good stuff out there worth reading. Second, I think it’s a good demonstration of just how difficult it is to maintain even a hobby blog, much less be successful blogging professionally. In fact, even among those on the active list above, there are at most 5 making enough money to be worth the time being put into them. Good thing most physician financial bloggers don’t seem to be in it for the big bucks. At any rate, these 23 blogs have come and gone, although there is potential for resurrection with a few of them.

5 Posts total on this one. It’s only been four months, there’s still hope.

This isn’t even a complete list. I know there have been a few more that have come and gone, but it has been so long I don’t know what they were called. Lots of them quit right after finding WCI.

Physician Financial Podcasts

There are more and more podcasts in this space all the time as well. These are listed in no particular order since there is no good way to see how many downloads a podcast (other than your own) has. These are active podcasts done by physicians that at least occasionally cover financial topics. There are other podcasts out there aimed at docs or their spouses, but these are all I know of that are actually done by docs.

Started January 2017 kind of on a whim, we never expected this to be as big as it is. Although the website gets far more pageviews than the podcast gets downloads, our downloads are comparable to how many people read a newly published post or the monthly newsletter. Many doctors have been introduced to The White Coat Investor through the podcast and the majority of its listeners will never read this post. The podcast contains some awesome guest interviews, lots of questions from readers, and even a few rants.

Started April 2016, this is one impressive production by Nii Darko. Their blog might be small potatoes, but the podcast isn’t. This concentrates on Ordinary Doctors Doing Extraordinary Things outside of medicine.

Started April 2017, this one is done by Carrie Reynolds, with frequent “Friends Talk Finance” episodes where she brings on blogger Miss Bonnie MD. Anybody can listen to it, but all the guests are women.

Started in March 2017, there are only four episodes (last in February 2018) and they’re less focused on finance than the blog is.

Some Thoughts On The Physician Financial Online Community

Whew! That was a lot of work to go through all that! It seems appropriate at this point to offer a few thoughts about physician financial online communities.

# 1 It’s Growing

Obviously, the community is large and it is growing as doctors realize they need to learn this information as early as possible in their careers. It’s definitely not growing as quickly as the number of blogs/podcasts that have been started in the last two years, which might explain why so few of them get very big.

# 2 “Me Too” Blogs Don’t Do Very Well

Now, I’m not talking about blogs discussing sexual assault here, I’m talking about a blog that tries to be the next White Coat Investor or Physician on FIRE. If your new blog idea is to basically rewrite all of the WCI posts in your own words, you’d better be either a heck of a writer or one awesome promoter. How many popular Physician FI blogs can there really be? Yet if you niche down too far, there’s nobody left to read but your mother. It’s a tricky dilemma. If you want to start a successful blog in this niche you’re going to need a unique perspective on something not currently being done very well and you’re probably going to have to grow the pie by finding docs not currently reading financial blogs to read yours and then hoping they don’t find another blog through yours that they like better. Possible niches? Docs approaching/in retirement (only one so far), a blog focusing on PAs/NP specific issues, British/Aussie/Kiwi physician financial blogs, and a blog focusing on PT/OT types all have potential.

# 3 Lots of Bloggers Run Out of Steam

Nobody reads your blog and certainly nobody pays you for blogging in the first year. At least half of the blogs that have come into this space have petered out before reaching that point. Before beginning a blog, honestly ask yourself before you begin if this is something you can and will do consistently, for two years, for free.

# 4 Hit the Forums

Few people realize this, but one of the reasons WCI was so successful is that I already had an online reputation BEFORE starting it. I’d been doing this for 6 years before starting the blog. I knew what questions doctors ask; I’d already answered them dozens of times. I was the 8th most prolific poster on the most popular investing forum on the planet and a handful of other financial forums. That not only gave me plenty of content ideas and readers who already liked my writing, but it also showed to me that I wasn’t going to have any trouble keeping this up for years. If you are a forum regular and if you enjoy getting on the forums every day and writing long posts, you probably have what it takes to stick with blogging long enough to have some success.

# 5 Non-Monetized Blogs Generally Don’t Grow

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I don’t know what it is about trying to make money that motivates people to keep at it and do a better job, but if you look at the top 15 blogs on the list, 12 of them are at least trying to make money. People are people and they do what they are incentivized to do. I know I would have never kept at it long enough to be successful if I wasn’t making something, and I certainly wouldn’t be pouring the time and effort in that I am now for free. Some people are more selfless than me, but not very many.

# 6 Most Physician Financial Blogs Will Never Be Financially Successful

The barrier to entry in this business is very low ($50 and a couple of hours) but the barrier to financial success is very high, and getting higher all the time due to the dilution factor. The problem is that a physician writing a financial blog has the ability to make money at a very high rate at their day job. Average Joe American might be thrilled to have a blog that pays him $500 a month, even if he spends 30+ hours a month on it, but that’s a terrible misuse of a physician’s time. It’s one thing if you are at $500 a month and you see it rapidly growing. It’s entirely different if you’ve been stuck at $500/month for 5 years. Now, this is all fine if it’s just a hobby for you, but if you’re taking time away from your practice, family, and hobbies to do it, you might want to get paid eventually.

When I started, I went to where doctors were and tried to get them to read a financial blog. 7+ years later, how many doctors are left that don’t currently read financial blogs but can be convinced to do so? Probably not very many. So your only tactic now may be to convince those that already read financial blogs to read your blog instead of or in addition to the ones they’re reading now. Most of us will read two or three blogs, but none of us (except maybe PoF) will read 50+. So how many financially successful blogs will there be eventually in this space? Hard to say for sure, but it is certainly a single digit number and most of them probably already exist. So if you’re a prospective physician financial blogger, make sure you’re doing this because you really love doing it, and not for financial reasons.

What do you think? Are you surprised by how many physician financial blogs there currently are? Which are your favorites? Are you surprised how many have come and gone? Why do you think that is? Who have I forgotten? If you’re a financial blogger, what kind of traffic and income are you seeing? Comment below!

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Blogging really is a grind, but one that I have loved. I hope that my site grows with time and that the traffic continues to climb making it a financially feasible operation at some point. That said, I’ve found it to be beneficial in a lot of other ways outside of the monetary aspect.

I will say that I think people are often interested in different points of view on similar topics. As the pastor who married my wife and me said, “You can never hear true things enough.” Sometimes hearing the same principle (or a different one) taught in a new light can be helpful. And sometimes people simply relate to the story of others. All that to say, I think there remains room in this niche for new physician finance bloggers to grow.

I’ll keep hammering away at my financial independence as a tool to prevent and treat the burnout that is all to prevalent in today’s docs. Hopefully, some will learn how to get there quickly so that they can choose to practice medicine because they want to, and not because they have to.

All right. You’ve left the first comment on nearly everything I’ve written in the last month or two despite the fact that I publish at 12:30 am MST. Are you working nights or do you live in Hawaii? This one came in at 1:49 am.

Nice list—now that I’ve been blogging for 18 months, I’ve seen the incredible growth in the number of physician finance blogs as well.

To give a data point correlating Alexa Rank with actual site stats, my blog had 24,529 hits last month, with slow but relatively steady growth. I don’t share my revenue numbers unless you’re WCI, but PoF and PIMD share their revenue to e-mail subscribers, and of course WCI shares his site revenue each January.

One of the non-monetary (which actually ends up being monetary) benefits of blogging is it forces you to learn aspects of personal finance and investing you don’t already know, or may not know well enough. Most physician finance bloggers will end up “earning” more from improving their own personal finances because they wrote, researched, and thought about topics for an article than they will from ads.

If you’re a current or prospective physician finance blogger, feel free to reach out to me or any of the other physician finance bloggers for tips or advice – it’s a very welcoming community.

Couldn’t agree more. We think and learn by talking and writing. Grappling with these ideas and putting words to paper is helping me understand not only the nitty-gritty of Financial Independence but also the social, emotional and interpersonal aspects of it. At times striving for financial freedom is lonely since almost no one you know is doing the same. I am more likely to be met with skepticism and a bit of derision rather than encouragement when I talk about these ideas in real life. Taking part in this community and contributing to it in a small way is motivating. As WCI says, money is motivating, but so is sharing, exploring, and learning 🙂

Thank you again WCI for including Pediatricianfindsfi on this list. Wall Street Physician is right, the financial independence and physician blogging communities are inviting and enthusiastic about sharing their expertise!

Absolutely. When you go to manage your own finances, all you have to learn is the stuff that pertains to you. But once you start answering questions for others, you’ll need to learn 10 times more. And if you want to do it for money giving formal, personalized advice, you’ll need to learn 100 times more. This is something that a lot of financial professionals don’t realize. They look at some schmuck DIYer and think, that guys doesn’t know nearly as much as I do. But he doesn’t HAVE to. Who needs to know about student loans or mortgages or real estate investing if you’re debt free and invested entirely in index funds?

I also agree that unless you make it really big, the biggest benefit is the improvement in your own financial management.

As I have said before, every member of the white coat investor has been a huge inspiration in my personal life and the reason why I even attempted to start a blog even though people had asked me to for several years prior to starting this April.

I pretty much have made it no secret that my ultimate goal would be to join the other pillars of the white coat network. Looks like I have a long ways to go but it was nice to crack the top 20 of this list (and thank you for showing my Alexa ranking, I heard of this measurement but did not know how to find it on my own.

Well hopefully there is a chance to add a member to the wci network (remember a 4 legged table is far more stable than a 3 legged stool. Lol 😂)

Again proud to be a member of this illustrious group and special shout out to PIMD whose blog post on starting a blog was the impetus for me

You got me PIMD, I really am one of the most high tech sophisticated bots out there.

You silly humans, thinking that a simple CAPTCHA is going to stop me and my brethren?

It was just a matter of time when we realized that there was no actual confirmatory step performed to verify indeed they we were not human when we checked the “are you human box? ” (and seriously did you guys think we couldn’t figure out which pictures contained street signs? MrRoboto23 and I had a chuckle over that simple countermeasure.

Sorry Ryan. I specifically excluded all the blogs written by financial professionals. As you know, nearly every financial professional website has at least a blog with a few posts on it. A common marketing strategy I guess. Some are “real bloggers” and some aren’t, but it would have easily doubled or tripled this list if I had included them.

WCI,
Thanks for doing the hard work of updating this list. As you noted, I’m not willing to do that kind of work. LOL. So true!
I agree: money is a motivator. I think the fact that I’m FI reduces my incentive to build a profitable business out of this. As you know this isn’t just “automatic passive income.” I enjoy the creative outlet and clarifying my thoughts and connecting with and helping other people. But I have “enough” money. Also, as you pointed out many times – I suck at marketing. So true, yet again.

At any rate, I’m glad to have survived in this field this long. I thought for sure I would be at the bottom of the list. I have a few cousins that must have started reading in addition to my Mom. LOL. I’m celebrating that I’m in the top 5 Million websites!
I’m not too familiar with Alexa but it is cool to see that. I’m currently getting about 30K page views per month. Hits are 60K -80K / mo but I think that is less meaningful. I make some money, but not much.

I have already started to read some of the listed blogs. Some I never heard of. Some I didn’t know went offline. Some I hope will come back (e.g. Live Free MD).

Interesting to compare your pageviews and WSP’s with the Alexa data. You guys demonstrate that Alexa doesn’t correlate perfectly with pageviews. You are slightly higher on pageviews, yet 25 spots down on the list as far as Alexa ranking. Oh well.

I’m curious what you mean by “hits.” I always equated “hits” with pageviews.

Month Unique visitors #visits Pages Hits
Jan 2018 12534 18966 38078 82436
Feb 2018 5790 11209 24761 72987
Mar 2018 9231 15386 33193 68654
Apr 2018 8340 13907 27622 58194
May 2018 8789 15582 33492 65368
Jun 2018 8129 14439 26367 51385
It beats me. I found this online at kb.webtrends.com
“Hit – A hit is any request to a web server. Each time a visitor downloads a page, clicks a hyperlink, views a graphic, or performs any other action on a website, a call is made to the web server. The web server records each of these requests in a log file. These requests are commonly known as “hits,” and the loading of a single web page can amount to many hits, due to all of the elements it contains.
Page View – A page view represents a hit to any file designated among the page file types. The most common examples are files ending in .html, .htm, .php, .asp, or .aspx.”

Wow, super surprised to have cracked the Top-10. Thanks for inclusion! Like you mentioned about the online presence before starting a blog… my advice is always “have 50,000 twitter followers” then start a blog – certainly the only reason I’ve made it!

It always makes me take a personal moment of reflection when remembering Dr. Wise Money. Her blog inspired me to think out of the box on student loan management in regards to credit cards. It is just so sad to think that someone with so much insight into finances, hard work, and inspirational spirit could be gone so soon. Its heart breaking to go back and read her story, may she RIP

Thanks Jim. It’s nice to be in the top 20. Keeping motivated is definitely the hardest part of blogging. I have 20 ideas started but have yet to find time and energy to finish them. Still I continue to churn out at least 1 post a week which is down from when I started and could write 3.

A pleasant surprise to see my blog on this list! WCI has definitely been an inspiration, and I am honestly puzzled as to why I’m the only vet that seems to be blogging about personal finance. I’m pretty motivated, so I intend to stick around for a while!

thanks for listing physician advocates md,
We aren’t really a “come and gone” Too many people found the name confusing thinking we were lawyers so we rebranded under https://negotiationmd.com/ and are still actively blogging

Thanks for the fantastic list and I’m looking forward to learning from some new docs.

I stopped posting last year when several family emergencies took priority for my time and because of concern that I couldn’t say what I really wanted and keep my day job.

Our family is doing well now, and I’m retiring from clinical practice in a few weeks (Thanks in large part to WCI and MMM. You guys rock!) so will likely resurrect the blog in some form. I’m super-excited for this new adventure!

Thanks for forging the path, updating the list, and sharing your perspectives on blogging. All of these have been helpful to me personally. Also, thanks for including me on the list! Physician finance in Canada is a smaller target audience, but I also think a bit of a rugged frontier still. I am not sure if I will ever monetize, but there has been such a vacuum of objective information specific to Canadian docs that I have definitely profited in terms of improving my own financial and investment strategies. Besides, if I ever did, it would be in Canadian Loonies anyway.

I was going to call my site the “76 Cents US Doctor”, but it wasn’t nearly as catchy and was less explicit about my mental status 😉
-LD

Well the one day I do not check the blog at 6AM. I went to my blog and wondered about the increased traffic. I thought maybe POF had included me in a Sunday best. HaHa. I am genuinely surprised that my little once per week blog ranked as high as it did. I am inspired to write some better posts. I have no idea how to check Alexa rankings. I follow the stats on unique visitors and page views. I think this blogging endeavor is fun and rewarding. It is forcing me to leave my box and learn a few new things. I am delighted to have made the list. Maybe in two years I will make another comment that contradicts this one. Ha

Newer blogger here so hope I don’t ever make the come and gone list!! I’m a pharmacist and the wife is an ER doc. We have 4 kids, so our blog is geared towards high income families! Been posting since May, so still in infancy stage.

Not that I am begging to be placed on the list. But, I think radsresident.com should have been placed on it as well. (My website for radiology residents, students, and associated radiologists has been increasing in popularity!) I do write financial articles occasionally (a few written in the past 3 months) and my Alexa rank is 1125570 and usa rank of 257795 as of the day that I am writing this response. I began my website in September, 2016

I ran one of the now defunct sites. It was fun initially. I naively thought I could carve out a niche that was unique and gain traffic. Never really happened. To be honest, my content wasn’t great either as I tried to do most of my writing on free moments on call. Had many opportunities to guest podcast or do a few other guest writing opportunities that would have required me to no longer be anonymous. Just couldn’t do it because some of the blog content was of a nature I wasn’t comfortable having my name attached (too personal).

Also hard to get excited about $0.32 of Google ad revenue when your day job pays $300/hr.

That perspective is probably super helpful to someone thinking about starting up. Easy to start but that “six month itch” is a real barrier. I also agree that it is very difficult to go very far while remaining anonymous.

Wow, I’m definitely surprised that I am on the list. I guess I almost got relegated to the “Come and Gone” list.? Whew! 🙂 Thanks for acknowledging my blog’s existence!

Yes, no post since May, but still planning to blog. I have been guilty of being lazy on the blogging front, as I have been “busy” enjoying the sunny weather after a brutal winter that we just had. Blogging in the winter is definitely much easier, in my humble opinion! Hats off to all you physician bloggers who regularly churn out great content. Amazing!

Sorry to disappoint you, but no battle is scheduled for the WCI GWN title belt. Didn’t you know that we Canucks are friendly to one another, except when it comes to hockey? 🙂 I am rooting for my fellow blogger bud Looniedoc to be the WCI of the North. He is definitely smarter and better looking than me!

I am relieved that you are continuing on DN. I am hitting summer hiatus also. Winter is plenty long to write, which is also much easier when the kids are in school. I keep trying to get ahead a few posts, but it just doesn’t happen. As far as I am concerned, I enjoy your writing and anything that you write about is something that I don’t need to. There is just so much ground to cover.

At the risk of deportation, I will confess that I enjoy playing hockey, but don’t actually follow the NHL anymore. Biathlon was my best sport. That is cross-country skiing coupled with precision shooting. I figure that it will be applicable again as my daughter approaches dating age. In terms of my good looks – I just have to say that Photoshop has probably become my favourite blogging skill 🙂
-LD

Interesting list, it does show that it is easy to start, but very difficult to make money at. It also takes a lot of work and knowledge. You must be very nice to give advertising to all your competitors.

Blogging is mostly collaborative. Those on this list who have asked for a lot of help know where I personally draw the line, but I look at it like this: People are going to do this whether I want them to or not, so I might as well enjoy the fact that they’re helping me accomplish my primary mission to give those who wear a white coat a fair shake on Wall Street.

Great list WCI and thanks for the mention. It’s feels great to be included in such an illustrious group of folks. Do you think “Choose FI” podcast deserves a mention since Jonathan Mendonsa is a pharmacist? Btw, I had no idea that Dr. Mo of Sustainable Medicine is female. With all her potty mouth cursing and such, I erroneously assumed she was male. Shame on me for making assumptions!

I enjoyed this post. Like all great performers, they make it look easy. Just watch the Olympic ice skaters. It is like that guy in math class in college. I study all semester long to get an A or A-, and some freshman comes in during my senior year with no study and finishes the test in 30 minutes and gets an A+. There is a relevant book entitled “Give and Take,” by Adam Grant. The WCI would fit in the category that Adam Grant talks about. He classifies people into three categories. The giver, the matcher, and the taker. The taker will use other people and not pay them back. The matcher obviously will repay a favor one for one. The giver comes in two varieties. The giver that gives and wants nothing in return (ever) gets burned out and depressed. But, the giver that gives and wants a little something in return (but not as much as a matcher) winds up being the most successful in society. This is the type of giver the WCI is. He gave on the forum for years, and then as the WCI for two years. But, the mission was always some margin. Now, look at the enterprise. Adam Grant made a whole study of this concept. I want the WCI to put on his white board concept diagram “the WCI IPO.” Go for a billion dollar enterprise and a public company. Better yet, capitalize your enterprise from funding by your users.

I still remember how it felt to be included on that previous list – like I was legit and really excited that WCI knew that I existed. What a ride it’s been since. Thank you to everyone who has ever promoted my site in any way. I’ve always tried to show my gratitude by returning the favor on my posts and Journal Clubs, and by paying it forward by highlighting newer blogs. Really appreciate this community… Hopefully, we’ll have another Physician Financial Bloggers meetup at FinCon this year. Let me know if you’re going!

We are writing for a different audience (the military), but I write 90% of the posts and I’m a Navy emergency physician. As you know, I wrote your guest posts on the new military retirement system and the most recent one on buying disability insurance for the military physician.

I love that the physician finance blog-o-sphere has grown so much, and I love it even more that I have inspired a few docs to start blogs of their own. I better start writing more if I want to keep my number 5 position, hahaha!

Thanks for including me on this list. You’re right, it’s hard to keep up with all these blogs out there. Keeping up a blog is a lot of work, but it’s worth it if we can help people. I blog mostly to keep a collection of my thoughts in one place and it makes me learn more about a particular subject. Thanks for making this massive list. I have some new blogs I want to check out now.

In addition to Alexa, similarweb.com offers free website traffic and user engagement stats and even lets you compare sites head to head. The order of this list flips around a bit using their stats (though WCI obviously remains on top). I’ve always found it interesting when comparing my site to others.

It’s much easier to start blogging consistently when you’re a medical student who wants to procrastinate and not a doc able to moonlight or work for real money.

There are also definite downsides to using your real name and having a non-targeted site, but one of the perks over the past decade of writing has been that I’ve never felt locked into a single topic and gotten bored.

Ah bummer. Guess I hadn’t tried it much for smaller sites. Still a good adjunct! I’ve definitely been contacted by businesses who have used it for metrics. Apparently, with a paid account, people are able to see who are the major outside referrers are to a given website and then use that to try to reach out and poach referral business.

Well I should never be on any list since I write almost the entire thing on my iPhone. I only kept blogging because I missed the 30 day full refund with Bluhost. And then it turned out to be kinda fun.

I am happy to hear that being anonymous and not monetizing will keep my traffic low. I reached FI after 11 years after working. It was very straight forward.

I had never heard of you until this year bc everyone kept saying WCI WCI on so many websites.

Best of luck with your endeavours, you seem to work very diligently at it. I would be forever too lazy to ever do that.

Appreciate the mention, and pleasantly surprised at the ranking results. I tend to avoid checking rank, partly for the “comparison is the thief of joy” benefit of remaining oblivious, and partly because (as I suspect with many folks on this list) it’s a passion project first, with income potential as a tempting afterthought that might fill the “retire to something” need we all share.

Until very recently the Wall Street Physician was also a resident, and has accomplished a tremendous amount at a time when most of us are still trying to figure out a reliable way to tie our scrub pants. I’m in awe of him, Future Proof MD, and the other folks who mastered time management so early in their careers that it permitted them a successful blog.

Thanks for putting some terrific additional blogs on my radar, and for driving the whack-a-mole like proliferation of docs trying to help one another.

Any thoughts on the seeming over-representation of Emergency Medicine, Radiology and Anesthesia in physician personal finance blogs?

I suspect it could be that folks in those specialties are less likely to view medicine as a calling than as a job but more likely is a reflection of shift work leaving time for another pursuit. I know that was a big part of my success- I needed something to do on weekday mornings.

And you know why I care about the comparison – I’m always looking for promising blogs for the WCI network. I just thought if I was going to go to all that work I might as well get a post out of it. And I had to list them in some order- alphabetical, date of origin, or readership. Only one of those put mine at the top. 🙂

Thank you for the kind words, Crispy Doc. I’m still plugging along in residency, but at least my salary this year finally exceeded my base salary (not inflation-adjusted, not including bonus) when I was a first-year analyst on Wall Street!

Less than 1% of readers typically comment. For example, this post has 77 comments but has been read by nearly 10,000. It’s good for building a sense of community, but the point of a blog post isn’t to generate comments.

PoF was already number 2, but still received a great big bump. As a general rule, joining cuts ~2 years off the curve. They not only get the marketing behind the WCI machine, but get to avoid all the mistakes I made!

Heya, just a note to mention that productivephysician.com isn’t dead or abandoned. I just focus on long-form posts and post intermittently. (More intermittently than I’d like, for the reasons you describe in your post.)

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